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drank the rum & went straight to sleep & never woke up until 2.30pm when the officer told me to pack up as I was to go on the Instructional staff to the Training Battalion. All I said was I thank God I was so utterly worn out with the cold & hard work, but I soon got my things together & went to Head Quarters & from there to E Camp where I got a new Pair of boots as I was almost bootless & in rags as clothes & boots seemed scarce in france at that time all my knees were bare & my Tunic was all in rags, so when we got to Albert where we caught the train I got a clean cHange of underclothes but no clean tunic or Pants, so I had to come to England in Rags & on reaching Horseferry Road they charged me £ 1.0.0 for a new tunic & 6/3 for a new hat, that was nice after going through what I had to have to pay for your own clothes (nice army this)
We arrived at the Training Battalion at Rollestone Camp Salisbury Plains & was on the staff instructing recruits in the Barb wire entanglements (Rapid Wiring) & was there 9 months & put hundreds of men through Rapid wiring lessons.
then my turn came again for France & I came over again in Jan 1918 & joined the Battalion again at Lumbres & from there we went into camp at a place not far from Nubre Gleece [?] & when our turn came we started in parties of Ten to go up to the trenches at Plougstreet & on the way up we had a rest & there was a party in front of us sitting at the Road side & I heard a shot fired & it was one of our own men who had shot
[Service Records show he rejoined his unit in February]